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OPERATIONS Action Team Charge

OPERATIONS Action Team Charge. Charge: “Develop an action plan to:” 1. Implementing a process for gathering objective workload data to perform analysis such as workload sustainability (maintain training, outreach, situational awareness and overall quality of NWS services).

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OPERATIONS Action Team Charge

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  1. OPERATIONS Action Team Charge • Charge: “Develop an action plan to:” 1. Implementing a process for gathering objective workload data to perform analysis such as workload sustainability (maintain training, outreach, situational awareness and overall quality of NWS services). 2. Re-examine NCEP’s role in digital services. 3. Examine current directive system and legacy products to evaluate which products and directives can be streamlined to facilitate Digital Services (e.g. decrease forecaster workload). Involve partners and customers in dialogue. 4. Prepare best practices concepts and strategies for implementing culture change to ensure best practices are implemented. 5. Finalize Concept of Operations and obtain Corporate Board Operations Committee approval. 6. Create a new Digital Services policy and directive structure. • Membership: Lead: Lynn Maximuk CR OS: Shannon White, Doug Young, Ron Berger OST: David Ruth NCEP: Bob Kelly, (P) HPC, Ed Danaher, (A) HPC REGIONS: Jeff Hovis ER, Jack Settelmaier (P) SR, Melinda Bailey (A) SR, Larry Dunn (P) WR, Dave Reynolds (A) WR, Ed Fenelon CR, Ken Waters PR, Eric Stevens (ISST), Dan Sobien NWSEO NWS Digital Services

  2. ASSESSMENT Action Team Charge • Charge: “Develop an action plan to:” 1. Implement an assessment capability culminating in a system that includes gridded verification and an analysis of record. 2. Improve forecaster use and understanding of verification information. 3. Develop and publicize select verification data to partners and customers. 4. Develop quality assurance capabilities. 5. Develop standards for what constitutes acceptable services. 6. Analyze customer and partner feedback and implement appropriate changes to improve digital services. • Membership: Lead: James Partain AR OS: Mike Tomlinson, Michael Graf, Kevin Lynott OST: Bob Glahn, Will Shaffer NCEP: Lauren Morone Regions: Mike Coyne SR; Mark Jackson (P) WR (ISST), Kirby Cook (A) WR; Pete Browning CR, Bill Ward PR (ISST), Gary Szatkowski (P) ER, Rick Watling (A) ER, Josh Watson (A) ER, Robert Baruffaldi NWSEO LEGEND: P = Primary A = Alternate NWS Digital Services

  3. SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATIONS Action Team Charge • Charge: “Develop an action plan to:” 1. Ensure long-term data retention of official products. 2. Ensure customer and partners have access to NDFD grids in formats easily used. 3. Ensure external communications and dissemination systems with requisite support structure are sufficient to meet user needs. 4. Ensure customer support system meet requirements. 5. Ensure enhancements to system capabilities are implemented to meet forecaster needs and ensure end-to-end AWIPS processing and communications systems are sufficient to meet forecaster needs. 6. Ensure communication delivery schedules, software, and hardware are in sync with service requirements. • Membership: Lead: Franz Zichy OST OS: Jamie Vavra OST: Bob Rood CIO: Bob Bunge, Ron Jones, Randy Chambers OOS: Beraq Azeem (P), V. Baer NCEP: Clinton Wallace, AWC Regions: Paul Kirkwood (P) SR, Eric Howieson (A) SR, Carl Gorski (P) WR, Jeff Walker (A) WR, Tom Hultquist CR, Jeff Manion CR, Bill Ward PR (ISST), Don Miller (P) ER, Greg Hanson (A) ER, Bill Hopkins NWSEO LEGEND: P = Primary A = Alternate NWS Digital Services

  4. TRAINING AND OUTREACH Action Team Charge • Charge: “Develop an action plan to:” 1. Ensure National Strategic Training and Education Plan process fully reflects needs for NWS Digital Service training. 2. Develop and implement a Digital Services customer/partner education, feedback and awareness strategy. 3. Distribute CONOPS to customers by e-mail, web site, publish a pamphlet, and write and distribute article in NWS FOCUS. • Membership: Lead: Mike Cammarata ER OS: Shannon White, John Simensky OST: Sam Contorno SP: Wendy Levine PA/COM: Susan Weaver (P), Greg Romano (A), Barry Reichenbaugh Regions: Tyree Wilde (P) WR, Mark Mollner (A) WR, Mike Looney CR, Joel Cline PR, Rich Kane (A) ER, Rose Miller (A) ER, Stephen Keighton ER (ISST), Andy Patrick SR (ISST), Waly Zaleski (A) (SR), Bob Farrell NWSEO LEGEND: P = Primary A = Alternate NWS Digital Services

  5. Program Planning Action Team Charge • Charge: “Develop an action plan to:” 1. Develop program plan through FY 2011 for input to the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES). Plan must at a minimum address the following areas: - Incorporate AHPS and all Digital Services - Expand NDFD to include observations and probabilistic grids - Incorporate all action team program plans - Incorporate user needs, and anticipated access and dissemination technologies - Incorporate Geographic Information System technologies - Compatible with existing NOAA Information Technology plans 2. Develop a structure for an Operations Requirements Document for Digital Services utilizing output from the action teams and using the new requirements process. Membership: Lead: Glenn Austin OS OS: Doug Marcy, Michael Graf, Jamie Vavra OST: Jennifer Rhoades, Suzanne Lenihan CIO: Bob Bunge, Ron Jones, Brenda Taylor SP: Wendy Levine OHD: Donna Page OOS: Alix Rolph NCEP: Russ Schneider, SPC Regions: Ken Waters PR, Brad Colman WR (ISST), Andy Edman WR, Ross Dickman (P) ER, Gregg Rishel (A) ER, Dan Sobien NWSEO NWS Digital Services

  6. DRAFT POWERPOINT TEMPLATE FOR ALL ACTION PLANS • TASK: (Your action team name) Ex. Formation of all seven action teams • STATUS: Color (R, Y, G) (Risk level - High, Medium, Low) Ex. Red (High Risk) • TEAM CHARGE: (Paste your charge here) • TEAM MEMBERS: (denote leader) • STATUS OF CONSENSUS: List status of what was agreed to and what still needs resolving • RESOURCES REQUIRED: PEOPLE: Percentage of time for which people for what time period Ex: 10% time for 50 people for 2 months BUDGET: Funding required and when Ex: 10K Travel funds in March/April 2004 Document creator: OS2:LSpayd: 713-1858x105:02/27/04 NWS Digital Services

  7. Plans for NWS Digital Services NWS Digital Services

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